What books awaken the lover in you? The best love stories are the classic ones. they offer a logical and lucid angle on the subject, giving you not only the emotion, but also a better understanding of love.
1. about stendhal’s love
“happiness never remains the same, except at its origin; every day it produces a new flower.”
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stendhal uses a confessional and witty tone to detail the insightful process of falling in love. stendhal offers the reader a mixture of anecdotes, philosophy and social observation from his personal experience and tries to make them universally applicable.
2. men are from mars, women are from venus by john grey
Martians “go to their caves” while Venusians “go to the well”.
john gray helps the reader to understand and accept the differences between a man and a woman. this book explains how such knowledge can create happier relationships.
3. the art of love by erich fromm
“love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. if love were just a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. a feeling comes and can go. How can I judge that it will last forever, when my act does not imply judgment and decision?”
This book shows how love is harder to achieve in the modern world. helps the reader understand how love can conquer loneliness and make one a more magnanimous person.
4. portrait of a lady by henry james
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“love remains. I don’t know why we should suffer so much. maybe you’ll find out.
considered to be the best work of henry james, isabel archer’s marriage to osmond gilbert leads her to suffer because of a cruel and oppressive husband. this book portrays to the reader what it means to be a radiantly good person who falls in love with a terrible person.
5. goethe’s roman elegies
“I quite like boys, but I prefer girls; when I have enough of a girl, she still serves me like a boy.”
This is a cycle of twenty-four poems by Goethe. Through his journey through Italy, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe celebrates the sensuality and vigor of romance and love. if you are looking for intelligent erotica, this is a book to read.
6. le grand meaulnes de alaine-fournier
“I also thought that our youth was over and that we had not been able to find happiness”.
If you are looking for a novel or a book that portrays the nostalgic story of lost teenage love, then you must read this. A clear account by fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel of her friendship with Augustine Meaulnes, who falls in love with a mysterious woman, Yvonne, only to find her years later, the book is magical and sets out on a quest for lost love.
7. shakespeare’s sonnets
“because the sweetest things are made bitter by their deeds; rotting lilies smell much worse than weeds.”
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the sonnets offer the reader the most moving expressions of love. they also offer melancholic and charming reflections of the author.
8. Saint Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians
If I speak human or angelic languages, but I do not have love, I become like metal that resounds or a tinkling cymbal.
The book offers a vivid detail of love linking it with kindness, modesty and forgiveness. it also provides the reader with some thoughtful and influential statements about the nature of love.
9. ana karenina by leo tolstoy
“all happy families are the same; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
This book offers a logical and evocative picture of each stage of love. Quite naturally, the author does well to keep the story together and offer the reader an intelligent and profound insight into love.
10. alain de botton essays on love
“we are all more intelligent than we are capable of, and the awareness of the madness of love has never saved anyone from the disease”.
Although the book attempts to offer a comic appeal of how serious the subject of love can be, the author offers an analysis of the various stages of a relationship, from first sight to separation.
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